This study proposed to identify teachers' questions and concerns in helping children write creatively in the intermediate grades of six elementary schools in Plainedge, N.Y.; to assess the extent of teacher interest in these questions and concerns for treatment in a teachers' guide; to write such a guide and test its adequacy for meeting teachers'…

Four units in a junior high school language arts program--literature, rhetoric, language, and reading--are presented in this curriculum guide. The introduction argues that a viable language arts program should be relevant to the immediate needs of the students, should emphasize self-discovery, and should attempt to unify the content and process of…

This book describes the various functions of the television journalist--in the United States and Great Britain--and supplies knowledge enabling members of a television team to work successfully as a unit. Separate chapters are devoted to discussions of (1) the world of television journalism, (2) writing for television, (3) the role of the…

Twenty-six lesson plans are presented for creative language activities leading to writing and art work. Each lesson includes a statement of teaching goals, resulting pupil experiences, materials needed, suggested stories, procedures, and extended follow-up activities. (AA)

Several examples of classroom activities that promote effective letter writing. (MM)

A study of eight language arts textbooks to determine how well they reflect recent findings regarding the writing process. (DD)

Describes how a seventh-grade teacher was able to devise a final examination that both reflected the goals of his process-oriented writing class and met the requirements of his school board. (ARH)

The craft of writing is accessible to everyone. To revive it will require that students learn more--read more history and literature and philosophy--and think about problems and the ways human beings have responded to the universal dilemmas of life. (MLW)

Team writing and shared ideas are interpersonal experiences that motivate children to write. (JH)

This book is meant to be used with the 1997 publication "Challenge Standards for Student Success: Language Arts" by providing additional student work to illustrate grade level standards. The works are intended to provoke discussion among teachers about whether or not a student has met the language arts standards and about what kind of…

This textbook book is an English course intended for use during the seventh and eighth grades and provides for study along both lines of language work, grammar and composition. The book includes a section on dictionary use. The final chapter is devoted to word analysis and was designed especially for the benefit of that great majority of grammar…

Presents a summary of language arts research relative to early childhood education. (TO)

The most immediate priority for educational reform must be for the establishment of a minimum degree of uniformity in the sequence and hierarchy of instructional and behavioral objectives during the initial stages of learning to decode and encode. (Author)

Outlined are devices to educate parents about composition concepts," i.e., what there is to learn in learning to write well. (RY)